Headlines from February 18, 2009
- Argument for Obama's new website being a stimulus in its own right.
- The site of which we speak: Obama's new transparency cloak, Recovery.gov.
- History of the presidential wet bar.
- Greenspan says nationalizating some banks could be the least bad option left for policymakers.
- Notes on how Clinton's delegating within the State Department, perhaps to avoid her campaign's mistakes.
- Pelosi and the Pope tangle over abortion rights.
- Tempers flare when columnist proposes spending $30 million to resurrect a neanderthal.
- Profile of a serial shoplifter.
- How designers have refitted fashion week in light of the crisis.
- Recently discovered blueprints for Auschwitz go on display.
- Reading A-Rod's facial display through the eyes of an expert in "microexpressions."
- Next time you need some creative inspiration: Fulltable.com; Mailer's letters; Mickey Rourke quotes.
- The remarkable office memoes of Tiger Mike.
- Haruki Murakami's Jerusalem acceptance speech argues for eggs and dignity.
- Atwood pulls out of festival after organizers blacklist novel with gay sheikh character.
- How Hollywood ruins good books; Birnbaum's notable book/movie pairings.
- Video: Top Gear drivers challenged by 18-wheelers.
- Israel's "Peace House" comes with bomb shelters on every floor, advocates the treatment of Gazan children, supports Israeli attacks.
- In Iraq, senior soldiers' fraud has blighted reconstruction, losing locals' hearts and mind.
- The crisis stiffens, economists are worried as the countries many believed would pull others out of recession show signs of a downturn.
- An unexpected bailout condition: Limiting salaries for a company's 25 top-paid executives makes the next 25 employees the top-paid.
- Unexpected consequences of financial crisis: better bureaucrats, longer skirts, more corruption.
- An unexpected recession benefit: Chrysler will stop manufacturing the PT Cruiser, the most hideous car on U.S. roads today.
- "When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave." How the crisis could boost New York's creative capital.
- The cutoff for this month's Of Recent Note topic, "People I Wish I Knew," is tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern time.
- Hertzberg: On bipartisanship, Obama is sharpening his teeth, rather than using them.
- Obama has a good memory for where he's been, grammatically, and a strong sense of where he's going. The Millions diagrams Obama.
- Also from the Millions: In lieu of a tour guide, enhance trips abroad with these novel-city pairings.
- Attention Chicagoans, your Snuggie Pub Crawl approaches, and it will be cuddly.
- You purchased matching fursuits so that you could renew your vows as foxes. "How to Say I Love You" by Paul Ford.